Summary of Major Accomplishments: Ford developed a PHEV Escape as part of a DOE contract to develop a production-ready PHEV prototype. Although conventional certification tests were conducted by Ford during their development, Argonne was brought in at the half-way point and at end of the development project to run their research-oriented benchmark testing on one of their prototype vehicles in different states of controls development. Here are the accomplishments: Prototype vehicle was instrumented by installing voltage and current probes and a resolver was installed for engien speed and position
Other signals were collected such as several temperatures and sett up CAN network data collection. ANL-1060 (10/07/2016) Summary of Major Accomplishments: 51 individual tests were conducted on the 4WD chassis dynamometer in December 2008, in both CD and CS modes over UDDS, US06, HWY, SC03 cycles, and research cycles including preformance and steady-state - 66 individual tests were conducted run on the 4WD chassis dynamometer in Aug 2009, in both CD and CS modes over UDDS, US06, HWY, SC03 cycles, and research cycles including prefoemance and steady-state - Data was analyzed and summarized for DOE in several in-person briefings. One briefing was held in early 2009 and another in the fall of 2009.